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Q: How do I uninstall photos for mac?

Can't say I am interested in using this program. When I plug an SD card into my iMac via the SD slot or plug in my CF Card reader to import images to my iMac, photos for mac auto opens and wants me to import said content into its library. So I suppose two questions. A) how do I uninstall photos for mac? B) If this is not possible how do I turn off auto prompt to import content every time I mount a disc? First world problem but seriously efs up work flow.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), null

Posted on Apr 15, 2015 1:49 PM

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  • by samfordvalley,

    samfordvalley samfordvalley Jul 27, 2015 2:19 AM in response to siamless
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    Jul 27, 2015 2:19 AM in response to siamless

    I agree, photos is also SLOW..I have 12,000 photos on a NAS drive and iPhoto was slow but it worked at least. Photos is much slower and randomly quits. Even importing 800 photos from my camera takes 2 hours to the NAS photo library. No its not the network as iPhotos took just a few minutes. I am disabling photos as per above suggestions and won't touch the useless piece of software for my valuable photos again. Shame on apple for forcing people into their cloud inch by inch.. makes me start thinking of windows again, inch by inch

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Jul 27, 2015 8:40 AM in response to samfordvalley
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    Jul 27, 2015 8:40 AM in response to samfordvalley
    .I have 12,000 photos on a NAS drive and iPhoto was slow but it worked at least. Photos is much slower and randomly quits

    Neither iPhoto nor Photos is designed to work with a NAS drive.  The fact that you were able to do so for a while just means you were lucky.

     

    The only type of drive that Photos can work with is one formatted OS X Extended (journaled) and connected via USB, FW or Thunderbolt cable.  So if you want to continue using Photos get another EHD, formatted correctly,

    ignoreownership.jpg

    put all your Photos and iPhoto libraries on it and run them from there.

     

    This Apple document, for Aperture libraries but also applies to iPhoto libraries, gives more info: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library

     

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  • by mlippincott,

    mlippincott mlippincott Aug 7, 2015 10:30 PM in response to Hvxley
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    Aug 7, 2015 10:30 PM in response to Hvxley

    No need to set this setting for every device-- delete it at the command line.

    launch Terminal and navigate to your Applications folder by typing:

    cd /Applications

    Then delete your account as the system's super user (root) by typing:

    sudo rm -r Photos.app

    it will request your password, type it in and Photos is gone!

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Aug 7, 2015 11:50 PM in response to mlippincott
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    Aug 7, 2015 11:50 PM in response to mlippincott

    Worth pointing out that it will re reinstalled at the next system update and will continue to be so.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Aug 8, 2015 12:25 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Aug 8, 2015 12:25 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    Love auto spell check

     

    Worth pointing out that it will re reinstalled at the next system update and will continue to be so.

    Worth pointing out that it will be reinstalled at the next system update and will continue to be so.


    LN

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Aug 8, 2015 12:27 AM in response to LarryHN
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    Aug 8, 2015 12:27 AM in response to LarryHN

    Could be auto spellcheck... could be typing with twelve fingers....

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Aug 8, 2015 12:43 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Aug 8, 2015 12:43 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    true - but in either case it is not really a solution - the only solution is to have apple solve it -

     

    and of course the real problem is the NAS and nothing will resolve that except having the library on a correctly formatted drive

     

    LN

  • by SukhiAatma,

    SukhiAatma SukhiAatma Dec 13, 2015 9:07 AM in response to Hvxley
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    Dec 13, 2015 9:07 AM in response to Hvxley

    Is there no way to uninstall the photos app at all?

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Dec 13, 2015 9:30 AM in response to SukhiAatma
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    Dec 13, 2015 9:30 AM in response to SukhiAatma

    You can't disable the auto launch feature in Photos when a memory card is connected to the Mac and you can't delete the application as it's part of the system.

     

    You can, however,  disable the Photo application by compressing this one file, Photos, in the application package and deleting the uncompressed version afterward:

    Finder001.jpg

    The app will have this appearance afteward and not launch:

    Finder002.jpg

     

    So if you don't want to use Photos at all that's a solution to the problem.


    However, to be able to delete the uncompressed version of the app you will have to temporarily disable the system's SIP, System Integrity Protocol.  Here's how:


    1 - boot into the Recovery volume (boot with the Command + R keys held down), select Terminal from the Utilities menu and launch.  Enter the following command followed by the Return key:

    csrutil disable

    2 - reboot normally and follow the instructions at the beginning of this post.

    3 - once you have made the modifications to the Photos app and have deleted the uncompressed file reboot into the Recovery volume, launch Terminal and enter the following command:

     

    csrutil enable

     

    4 - reboot normally and Photos should be disabled and your SIP will be intact. You can check to see if the SIP is enable by running the Terminal (don't need to boot into the Recovery volume) with this command

    csrutil status

     

     

    Be aware that this procedure requires "hacking" the system for a short period of time in order to get done what is needed.  If you don't feel comfortable with that then certainly do not attempt.   As a start you can try running Step 4 above to see what the current status is shown at.

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